Financings Roundup

Excelimmune Inc., of Woburn, Mass., closed a Series B financing worth $10.5 million to advance its antibiotic candidate Staphguard. The drug is a human recombinant polyclonal antibody designed to target methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The funds will also be used to improve the company's discovery platform and finish proof-of-principle work on its manufacturing system.